Timfish Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Some of you may already be familiar with the concept of the coral holobiont For those of you who are not research in the last few years has shown not only do corals have various species/strains of Symbodinium spp dinoflagellates (aka zooxanthellea) but also symbiotic cyanobacteria and coral species specific bacteria. Emerging research is also suggesting fungia, algae (besides Symbodinium) and perhaps even viruses. Here are some links for those who have some time to waste Discovery of Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacteria: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/305/5686/997 Diversity and Distribution of coral associated bacteria (the Mendeley website wants you to download their reader but this paper is short and you can read it by clicking on the page image on the right of the screen) http://www.mendeley.com/catalog/diversity-distribution-coral-associated-bacteria-1/ Onset of microbial associations in the coral Pocillopora meandrina http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v3/n6/full/ismej20093a.html These are just a few if you do a search on "Coral Holobiont" or "bacteria diversity in corals" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Timfish Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 Here's a good video describing the holobiont: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 the mendeley link is broken for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted July 4, 2015 Author Share Posted July 4, 2015 Thanks Victoly, Here's a here's a new link to the paper, looks like the one I posted a couple years ago has been taken down. http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2002/243/m243p001.pdf This is what caught my eye reading the abstract "Different coral species had distinct bacterial communities, even when physically adjacent, while bacterial communities from the same coral species separated by time (~1 yr) or space (3000 km) were similar." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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